> On 29 Jan 2015, at 20:46, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@web.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > >> On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:20, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com >> <mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com>> wrote: >> >>> On 10 Dec 2014, at 23:11, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com >>> <mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com>> wrote: >>> I’m not sure how to make serious progress with my current load (both work >>> and privately). Does anyone have experience with crowd-funding for >>> open-source work? >> >> I guess not. I’m still interested in idea’s on how to improve >> development/support for PyObjC. > > This is not from personal experience, but observation of other maintainers > e.g. like Christian Tismer & the psyco optimizing Python JIT, and the > stackless python implementation. > > For both cases, he scored consulting gigs with companies that heavily used > his projects, so that he could work on them and improve them. One was a > computer trading company somewhere in the US, the other with the game studio > CCP of Eve Online fame. > > So my suggestion would be to seek out companies that use pyobjc, and ask if > they have an interest in employing you, on whatever base. > > Sorry that I can’t be of more help - crowd-funding has not worked for me so > far, as these things seem to need (in my limited perception, not really > deeply surveyed the landscape) a goal that has a certain “sexyness” (in lieu > of a better term) - usually, that means a consumer product, such as a game, > or self-driving cool box or some such.
That’s my perception as well. A site like kickstarter also appears to require you to work on a specific product (a gadget, new software, …) and not ongoing development of an existing project. Ronald > > Diez
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